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6. PHARMACOLOGICAL TREATMENT
Course Overview
This course provides a comprehensive update on medications to treat osteoporosis and reduce fracture risk.
After this course, you should:
- Recognise the goal of pharmacological therapy.
- Identify patients that should initiate osteoporosis treatment to prevent fragility
fractures. - Classify and distinguish the different osteoporosis medications.
- Be able to evaluate evidence for anti-fracture efficacy and safety of each osteoporosis treatment.
- Be able to select the osteoporosis treatment suitable according to patients’ profile and lifestyle.
Self-assessment criteria:
- You must complete a multiple-choice question-based assessment to test your understanding of the content covered in this course.
- There are 7 questions with a time limit of 15 minutes to complete the assessment. Once this time has elapsed, the assessment will be considered completed at its current level of progress.
- A maximum of three attempts are allowed to pass the self-assessment.
- You should achieve a score of 80% or more.
If you successfully pass the assessment, you will be awarded certification for course 6 and progress to course 7.